In 1923, Alexander Bialywlos (later changed his name to Alexander B. White) was born in Krosno, Poland to Lea and Mendel Bialywlos. Alex had two brothers and a sister. He was always surrounded by family because there was a large clan of Bialywlos in…

A couple of weeks later the German infantry entered Dynow, and Mendel decided to go back to Krosno to see if it might be safe to return home. The next day after Mendel left, the Nazi SS entered the town, rounding up all men between the ages of 16 to…

The Bialywlos family moved into the Krosno ghetto around the summer of 1942, but by the end of the year, eighty percent of Alex’s family and relatives would be killed. The family and some of the workers of the glass business were given special…

On December 3, 1942, the Nazis announced that the ghetto was going to be liquidated and that everyone had to report to the courtyard the next day. Alex, his father, brother, and Moshe Heller’s (the brother of Alex’s aunt) family decided that they…

On October 14, 1944, Alex’s name appeared on a list of workers assigned to German industrialist Oskar Schindler. At the time Schindler was relocating his factory from Poland to the Sudetenland to avoid advancing Soviet armies. To this day, Alex is…

On May 8, 1945, a Soviet soldier rode into the area of Schindler’s factory and told everyone that the Germans had retreated. It was a day of liberation for everyone in the factory. Mr. Schindler sent some people to town in order to purchase meat for…

On June 8, 1950, Alex arrived in the United States after receiving his immigration papers. Alex would take full advantage of his medical training serving in the United States Army Medical Group. He served as an associate professor of medicine at the…

Eventually the family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona were Alex continued to practice for 40 years until his retirement. One highlight of Alex’s life came in the 1980s when he traveled back to Europe and reconnected with Mrs. Schindler. While in Europe,…